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City Football Group Limited (CFG) is a British-based holding company that administers association football clubs. The group is owned by three organisations, of which 81% is majority-owned by Abu Dhabi United Group, 18% by the American firm Silver Lake, and 1% by Chinese firms China Media Capital and CITIC Capital.
Manchester City Football Club dates back to 1894, when Ardwick A.F.C. dissolved and was reformed as Manchester City Football Club Ltd. Over recent years, the state of ownership and finances of Manchester City Football Club has been tumultuous, featuring various owners of contrasting fortunes, in line with the club's inconsistent trend on the pitch.
Club Owner(s) Estimated combined net worth Source of wealth Blackburn Rovers: Anuradha Jitendra Desai Banda Venkatesh Rao Banda Balaji Rao [53] $2B [54] Venkateshwara Hatcheries Group: Bristol City: Stephen Lansdown: $2.6B [55] Hargreaves Lansdown: Burnley: Alan Pace (50.38%) ALK Capital LLC Cardiff City: Vincent Tan (51%) [56] $730M [57 ...
Manchester City Football Club is a professional football club based in Manchester, England, that competes in the Premier League, the top flight of English football. Founded in 1880 as St. Mark's (West Gorton) , they became Ardwick Association Football Club in 1887 and Manchester City in 1894.
The Group was founded in the summer of 2008, as Sheikh Mansour looked to take over Manchester City Football Club from the former Prime Minister of Thailand Thaksin Shinawatra [6] and signed off the deal on 1 September 2008, [7] with due diligence completed on 23 September the same year.
The Elite Development Squad [2] have played in the Under 21 Premier League [3] since the 2012–13 season and previously played in the Premier Reserve League North.Starting with the 2011–12 season, the EDS competed in the NextGen Series competition, [4] a Champions League format tournament only open to a select group of 'Under-19' teams located in western Europe. [5]
The following is a list of association football clubs and their affiliates, past and present. Teams may have a feeder club for a number of reasons, including the ability to loan out inexperienced youngsters, to allow young, foreign players to gain a work permit, or for business purposes, such as merchandising.
However, "there was a legitimate basis to prosecute" Manchester City, and UEFA had given Manchester City "due process"; despite the club's claim that UEFA was biased against them. [164] Additionally, CAS found that Manchester City "obstructed the investigations of the CFCB" by failing to produce significant amounts of evidence to CFCB.